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National Priorities Project
NPP is the people's guide to the federal budget. National Priorities Project (NPP) makes our
complex federal budget transparent and accessible so people can exercise their right and
responsibility to oversee and influence how their tax dollars are spent.
In 2014, NPP was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its pioneering work to
track federal spending on the military and promote a U.S. federal budget that represents
Americans' priorities, including funding for people's issues such as inequality, unemployment,
education, health and the need to build a green economy.
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Truthdig
TruthDig is a Web magazine that provides a mix of long-form articles, interviews, and blog-like
commentary on current events, delivered from a progressive point of view. The site is built
around major "digs" led by authorities in their fields who write multifaceted pieces about
contemporary, often controversial, topics. Articles on Truthdig are open for comments, and the
participants in the discussions . tend to be left-leaning. (Wikipedia) .
Chris Hedges is one of the regular contributors, which is enough to make it worth checking out
(Jude).
Alternet
Alternet, a project of the non-profit Independent Media Institute, is a progressive/liberal activist
news service, but contains broad enough information to be relevant to readers of many
persuasions. Launched in 1998, AlterNet now claims a readership of over 3 million visitors per
month. AlterNet publishes original content as well as journalism from a wide variety of other
sources.
AlterNet states that its mission is to "inspire citizen action and advocacy on the environment,
human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, and health care issues." AlterNet's tagline
is "The Mix is the Message." (Wikipedia)
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Common Dreams
Common Dreams NewsCenter, often referred to simply as Common Dreams, is a 501(c)3
nonprofit U.S. based progressive news website. Common Dreams publishes news stories,
editorials and a newswire of current breaking news.
Common Dreams also re-publishes relevant content from numerous other sources such as the
Associated Press and writers such as Robert Reich and the late Molly Ivins. The website also
provides links to other relevant columnists, periodicals, radio outlets, news services, and
websites. (Wikipedia)
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Huffington Post
Huffington Post is an American news website, content-aggregating, and blog founded by
Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, featuring columnists and various news
sources. The site offers coverage of politics, theology, media, business, entertainment, living,
style, the green movement, world news, and comedy, and has news, blogs, and original content.
The Huffington Post was launched on May 9, 2005, as a commentary outlet and alternative to
news websites like the Drudge Report. On February 7, 2011, AOL acquired The Huffington Post
for US$315 million making Arianna Huffington editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media
Group (Wikipedia).
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Mother Jones
Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is an American independent news organization, featuring
investigative and breaking news reporting on politics, the environment, human rights, and
culture.
Mother Jones has been nominated for 23 National Magazine Awards and has won six times,
including for General Excellence in 2001, 2008, and 2010. In addition, Mother Jones also won
the Online News Association Award for Online Topical Reporting in 2010 and the Utne Reader
Independent Press Award for General Excellence in 2011. With a paid circulation of 200,000,
Mother Jones magazine is the most widely read liberal publication in the United States. Monika
Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery serve as co-editors. Madeleine Buckingham has served as Chief
Executive Officer and Steve Katz as Publisher since 2010. The magazine was named after Mary
Harris Jones, called Mother Jones, an Irish-American trade union activist, opponent of child
labor, and self-described "hellraiser." She was a part of the Knights of Labor, the Industrial
Workers of the World, the Social Democratic Party, the Socialist Party of America, the United
Mine Workers of America, and the Western Federation of Miners. The stated mission of Mother
Jones is to produce revelatory journalism that in its power and reach informs and inspires a more
just and democratic world.
Mother Jones is published by the Foundation for National Progress, a nonprofit 501(c)(3)
organization. Mother Jones and the FNP are based in San Francisco, with other offices in
Washington D.C. and New York (Wikipedia)
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NPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio is a privately- and publicly-funded non-profit membership
media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations
in the United States.
NPR produces and distributes news and cultural programming. Individual public radio stations
are not required to broadcast all NPR programs that are produced. Most public radio stations
broadcast a mixture of NPR programs, content from rival providers American Public Media,
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Public Radio International and Public Radio Exchange, and locally produced programs. NPR's
flagships are two drive time news broadcasts, Morning Edition and the afternoon All Things
Considered; both are carried by most NPR member stations, and are two of the most popular
radio programs in the country. NPR manages the Public Radio Satellite System, which
distributes NPR programs and other programming from independent producers and networks
such as American Public Media and Public Radio International. Its content is also available ondemand via the web, mobile, and podcasts.
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Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy, founded in 1970 by Samuel Huntington and Warren Demian Manshel, Foreign
Policy is the premier, award-winning magazine of global politics, economics, and ideas.
Serious without being pompous, deep without being self-indulgent, Foreign Policy is an
essential modern guide to global politics, economics, and ideas for people who want to know
what's really happening in an increasingly complicated world. Foreign Policy both simplifies
and clarifies complex topics with crisp, insightful writing and clear design.—Judges' Remarks,
2009 National Magazine Awards.
“Equal parts scout and translator, we draw on the world's leading journalists, thinkers, and
professionals to analyze the most significant international trends and events of our times, without
regard to ideology or political bias. Whether examining who the winners are in Iraq, determining
solutions to save the world, or discovering the states that fail us, we strive to combine original
thinking with real-world illustrations of ideas in action.”
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